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OK first, your standard examples:

1. CCSS.Math.Content.3.NBT.A.1 - Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. 
2. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.1 - Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

#1 sound easy enough but tell me how this wasn’t being done pre CC? #2 this sounds easy too, answer a question to determine knowledge… hmmm I think pre CC math did this too. The problem isn’t necessarily the standard as written, its enacting the standard. The devil is in the detail here. For these standards to be ‘standardized’, regulations are required to explain exactly how #1 and especially #2 are to be performed.  Thousands of pages of written requirements will dictate how to accomplish. If schools do not rigidly adhere, they will not receive the federal monies, thus schools will rigidly adhere. But the catch is… Please show me the peer reviewed scientific literature showing randomized double blinded controlled studies proving the application of these standards per the regulatory component works. Hint, there isn’t any.

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So the Common Core standards are revolutionary and require 20 years of randomized double-blind controlled studies, plus they were already being done anyway. Got it.

By the way, a double-blind study means that neither the researcher nor the study subject knows which treatment the study subject is getting. Please explain how this would be possible in a study of the effectiveness of a curriculum.[/quote]

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